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- Freundlich worked with director of photography Julio Macat to give the bank
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- heist scenes a polished, saturated and modern look. “For the heist scenes we wanted to
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- convey the look of a big slick movie
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- –
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- high tech all the way, with luster,” says Macat.
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- Upon
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- completion of two weeks of location filming, the production moved to an
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- industrial business complex in Santa Clarita, California, north of Los Angeles. The
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- filmmakers converted two large warehouses into soundstages that housed the film’s
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- interior sets, such as bank offices, safe room, security room and the hospital where Tom
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- Phillips awaits surgery.
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- Outside the stages, Meyer and his team transformed a large, vacant parking lot
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- into the Phillips Karting Center, a go
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- -cart track that serves as the kids’ hang-out and
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- inspiration for the bank heist.
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- After scouting several go
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- -cart tracks in Southern California, the filmmakers
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- decided to build their own. Six thousand hours of work, a thousand bales of hay, a
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- couple thousand tires, and lots of paint, flags, and
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- containers later, the filmmakers had
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- their track.
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- “We started with a black asphalt parking lot and then figured out a way to help
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- accentuate the action, go
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- -cart speeds and dynamics,” says Meyer. “We wanted the go
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- -
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- cart scenes to feel like a video game w
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- here you’re actually inside the car and get a sense
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- of tremendous speed.”
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- For the heist getaway scenes, Meyer designed go
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- -carts that were slick, stealthy
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- and quiet. “We cut out holes in the bottom where we put in neon lights so the go
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- -carts
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- seem to float
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- as they race down the street,” he says. “We also put a huge rear jack fin on
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- the back of Gus’s nitro
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- -injected go-cart to accommodate some of the stunts and a new
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- engine and muffler configuration.”
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- Stunt coordinator Gary Paul and his team trained the act
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- ors for the go
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- -cart
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- sequences. Though the actors performed some of the driving sequences, Paul brought in
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- an experienced team of professional go
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- -cart racers for the faster, more dangerous
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- sequences.
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- Three elaborate camera rigs were used for the go
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- -cart
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- racing scenes: motorcycle
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- side cars, a go
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- -cart mounted with a special camera to reduce vibration, and a four-wheel
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- quad-runner.